A generic function that returns t
if the stream is positioned at the beginning of a line.
stream
stream-start-line-p stream => result
stream⇩ |
A stream. |
result |
A boolean. |
The generic function stream-start-line-p
returns t
if stream is positioned at the beginning of a line, and nil
otherwise. It is permissible to define a method that always returns nil
.
Note that although a value of 0 from stream-line-column also indicates the beginning of a line, there are cases where stream-start-line-p
can be meaningfully implemented and stream-line-column cannot. For example, for a window using variable-width characters the column number is not very meaningful, whereas the beginning of a line has a clear meaning.
The default method for stream-start-line-p
on class fundamental-character-output-stream uses stream-line-column. Therefore, if this is defined to return nil
, a method should be provided for either stream-start-line-p
or stream-fresh-line.
fundamental-character-output-stream
stream-fresh-line
stream-line-column
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